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An entrancing adventure for today's troubled planet, The Casket of Time is a fantastical tale of time travel and environmental calamity from celebrated Icelandic author Andri Snaer Magnason. Teenage Sigrun is sick of all the apocalyptic news about the situation and, worse, her parents' obsession with it. Sigrun's family-along with everyone else-decides to hibernate in their TimeBoxes (R), hoping for someone else to fix the world's problems . But when Sigrun's TimeBox (R) opens too early, she discovers an abandoned city overrun by wilderness and joins a band of kids who are helping a researcher named Grace solve the situation. The world, according to Grace, is under an ancient curse. There once was a princess named Obsidiana, who was trapped in time by the greedy king of Pangea. To protect Obsidiana from dark and gloomy days, the king put her in a crystal casket made of spider silk woven so tightly that time itself couldn't penetrate. The king's greed for power doomed his kingdom and the trapped princess. Sigrun sees eerie parallels between the tale of Obsidiana and the present-day crisis, and realizes it's up to her and her friends to break the ancient curse and fix the world.

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The largest box of chocolate written in the Icelandic language that I have ever laid my hands on... This is confectionery for the mind! Wow! It is so good that I forgot to make notes ... This is a book for the 3 year old, the 30 year old, the 300 year old. -- Audur Haraldsdottir * Channel 2, National Radio * Andri Snaer Magnason has created an intimate epic that floats effortlessly between genres as diverse as fairy tale and political commentary, science fiction and social realism. The Casket of Time spans the chasm between `once upon a time' and `have you heard the news today' in a way that makes his philosophical fable feel both timely and timeless. -- Bjarke Ingels The story confronts the concept of time and twists old fairy-tale memories with a passionate creativity. * The Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize * Praise for The Casket of Time: Winner of The Icelandic Literary Prize for Children and Young People's Books Winner of The Icelandic Booksellers Prize for Best Teenage Book of the Year Nominated for the Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize Nominated for the The West Nordic Literature Prize Nominated for the Reykjavik Children's Literature Prize

Here we have a timeless fairy tale, and Magnason's depiction of this magical world is magnificently well realized. -- Jon Bjarki Magnusson * DV Daily * The largest box of chocolate written in the Icelandic language that I have ever laid my hands on... This is confectionery for the mind! Wow! It is so good that I forgot to make notes ... This is a book for the 3 year old, the 30 year old, the 300 year old. -- Audur Haraldsdottir * Channel 2, National Radio * A sparkling and entertaining adventure story in two time eras with a clear moral which, however, never turns into a sermon. * Frettabladid * The story confronts the concept of time and twists old fairy-tale memories with a passionate creativity. * The Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize * I have not previously seen the fairy tale genre so well tied up with a sci-fi story, a fantasy tale and a contemporary drama all at once. It really is elegant and full of surprises. I am therefore not at all surprised that the book has already won a few awards in Iceland. It would not surprise me if it also won the Nordic Council Children and Young People`s Literature Prize. * Weekendavisen, Denmark * The love child of Chomsky and Lewis Carroll. -- Rebecca Solnit, author of Call Them by Their True Names

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Andri Snaer Magnason is an Icelandic writer, born in Reykjavik on the 14th of July 1973. Andri has written novels, poetry, plays, short stories, essays and films. He studied Icelandic literature at the University of Iceland. His novel LoveStar got a Philip K. Dick Special Citation, the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire in France, and Novel of the year in Iceland. The Story of the Blue Planet was the first children's book to receive the Icelandic Literary Award and has been published or performed in 35 countries. The Story of the Blue Planet received the Janusz Korczak Honorary Award in Poland 2000. Andri has collaborated with various artists. He has been active in the fight for preserving the nature of Iceland. His book Dreamland: A Self Help Manual for a Frightened Nation takes on these issues and has sold more than 20,000 copies in Iceland. He co-directed Dreamland, a feature-length documentary film based on the book. Footage from and an interview with Andri can be seen in the Oscar Award winning documentary Inside Job by Charles Ferguson. His most recent book, The Casket of Time, has now been published in about 10 languages and was nominated as the best fantasy book in Finland 2016, along with books by Ursula K. le Guin and David Mitchell. Andri Snaer lives in Reykjavik with his wife Margret, and four children. Born and educated in Reykjavik, Bjoerg Arnadottir has lived and worked in England since 1971; her British husband, Andrew Cauthery, is fluent in Icelandic. They have worked together for many years, translating both English texts into Icelandic and Icelandic texts into English. They have worked on a wide variety of manuscripts, including books on Icelandic nature and technical topics, as well as literature. Literary works in Icelandic include translations of Wind in the Willows for Iceland State Radio and A Map of Nowhere by Gillian Cross, for Mal og Menning. Works in English include three crime novels (House of Evidence, Daybreak, and Sun on Fire) by Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson for Amazon Crossing, and And the Wind Sees All by Gudmundur Andri Thorsson, published by Peirene Press in September 2018.

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